Re: Dead Harddrive?

[aphelps@vicstoy.UUCP (Austin Phelps)]

In article <CJ5zA4.H1@zeno.fit.edu> haga@zach.fit.edu (The Pyrotechnic) writes:
>MiniScribe (ya i know its old)
>Model B425SA 
>HDA 06
>PCBA 03
>UNIQUE 07

Mine like that. I think is a 8245SA (20 Meg SCSI).

>When put on the card, and tried to access the drive, it shows EVERY id filled 
>when this harddrive is connected.... it even shows every i'd even with no
>jumpers in place, or even with jumpers in place....

I had that same problem. First I formated with the RamFast and then move it
a IIe with a High Speed Card. All ID were filled up (6 to 0). I just reformated
the drive under and the those duplicates ID were erase. I figured it was due
to the RamFast configuration table.

>i have no problems with the snailgate drive i have connected, it seems that 
>this drive is the only one i have problems with... please if anyone has any
>ideas on what might have happend to this drive, let me know, it was my backup
>drive, and now im stranded... thanks in advance..

Try doing a low level formating. If you don't know you have to go to
the partition software using the HS Utilities. Partition and select yes and
the software will as you if you want to do a low level format. You can figure
out the rest :)

I hope this helps.


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